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H. S. ROGKWOOD. BUTTON FASTENER.

No. 449,648. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THE HOLMES MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,648, dated March31, 1891: Application filed October 14, 1890. Serial No. 368,096- (Nomodel.)

to that class of button-fasten ers which are gen-.

erally known as eyelet button-fasteners, to distinguish them fromso-called staple button-fasteners; and my invention consists in aneyelet button-fastener made in disk form,

which can be readily attached to or removed from the eye of the button,as will be clearly understood by referring to the drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved fastener. Fig. 2 represents asection of the same, taken on the line a: 00, Fig. 1, showing the buttonin proper position. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the fastener and buttoncombined. Fig. 4 is a section taken on line y y, Fig. 1.

In eyelet button-fasteners as heretofore made the tongue which passesthrough the eye of the button is liable to be bent by constant strainout of its original and proper form, so as to allow its free end toproject beyond the convex surface of the disk, thus causing considerableannoyance to the wearer from its frequent catching into the meshes ofthe stocking, which results in tearing the same or bending the tongue sothat it will press into the flesh of the foot. It is the object of myinvention to obviate these difficulties, and, furthermore, to so formthe tongue that it is practically impossible to disarrange the tongue soas to prevent the fastener from being readily removed from the buttonwhen desired.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a slightly-hollowed diskprovided with the cut-out tongue a, which is made in curved form, theend 6 of which is turned inward, so as to enter the shallow cavity ofthe said disk. Near the center of the disk, as at b, the tongue may bearched to an extent preferably of about the diameter of the wire ofwhich the button-eye cut out as to leave openings 0 on both sides of thetongue a, the ,edges of the said openings 0 being turned inward, asshown in Fig. 4. It will thus be seen that there will be no angularedges or projections exposed to contact with the stocking, and thattherefore it will be impossible for the disk to get caught in the fabricor to injure the same.

Whenever it is desired to fasten a button, the inwardly-turned end ofthe tongue is passed throu h the eye of the button and the disk isturned so as to cause the tongue to slide along in the eye until thelatter reaches the arched portion of the tongue near the center of thedisk.

The tongue a is so cut from the disk that it will start directly forwardfrom its attaching-point, then curve to one side and backward, so thatthe end of the tongue will not be liable to project injuriously from thedisk when in use.

I claim as my invention- A button-fastener consisting of a concave diskprovided with an integral tongue out centrally therefrom, the saidtongue extending forward from its connecting-point, then curving to oneside and backward, and terminating in an upturned end, substantially asdescribed.

HOYVARD S. ROOKWOOD.

Witnesses:

S. SOHOLFIE'LD, H. S. BABCOCK.

is made, and the disk itself is so-

